After a solid 10 days of shocks the international system has taken another blow with the downing at 1:24 a.m. Ottawa time Tuesday of a Russian warplane that had strayed over a 1.5-mile strip of Turkish territory in Syria’s far northwest. NATO powers and the U.S. are again left grappling with the consequences. This time, so are Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, the powers were facing French President François Hollande’s unilateral “declaration of war” on ISIL and his call for a coalition to fight said “war.” That might have been a non-starter in the first place given the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
